Pointer-baton for music instructors.



F. WHEELER. POINTER BATON FORMUSIC INSTRUGTORS. APPLICATION FILED APB. 15,1907.

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POINTER-BATON FOR MUSIC INSTRUCTORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 23, 1909.

Application filed April 15, 1907. Serial No. 368,262.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLETCHER WHEELER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedV a new and useful Improvement in Pointer-Batons for Music Instructors, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for facilitating the instructionof students in vocal or instrumental music, and has for its object the providing of a pointer device, whereby the attention of the student may be most effectively and definitely directed to and fixed upon a note or chord formation that he is desired to sound or read.

The invention has for further objects the effecting of such other improvements in structure and function as may be found to obtain in the devices hereinafter described or claimed.

In `the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows the pointer baton in use in connection with its chart-board; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the end of the baton with its detachable note-formed pointer-tip; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the iine of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 2 and Fig. 5 is a plan view of another form of detachable tip, representing a triad or combination of notes.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts in all of the figures.

10 is the chart-board having upon it simply the lines of a double staff with the base and treble clefts thereon. vided with the detachable tip 12, made in the form of a note, just the width of one of the spaces between the lines of the staff, but with its middle portion aperturedso that when the pointer is pressed upon the chart over any line of the staff, such line will be visible through the aperture which may be either open or closed with transparent material.

This tip is made of celluloid so that it may be very light, strong and iieXible, and is preferably black so as to contrast with the white background of the chart. The celluloid is used preferably in sheet form, with the lower portion of the iece rolled into a tube to form the stiff shan: that fits on the end of the baton. rIhe overlapping edges of the portion rolled up to form the socket are cemented or otherwise fastened together. rThis method of forming the tip from iiexible sheet material gives the note-formed portion or blade a 11 is the baton prol slight curvature, as indicated in Fig. 3, and l also permits it to be readily bent, at 13, at a slight angle from the stiff shank or socket; i and in use the operator presses the concave face of the inwardly bent note-formed flexible blade against the chart, so that the said note-formed flexible blade will be flattened out in close contact with the surface of the chart to facilitate clearly defining its position in relation to the lines of the staff. To represent a note on any line of the staff, the pointer is so placed and pressed against the chart that the intended line may be seen through the aperture in the note-formed tip; and to represent a note in any space on the staff, the note-formed tip is so placed between two lines of the staff that no part of either line is visible through the aforesaid aperture. In this manner it becomes possible to readily and unmistakably indicate to the eye of the student whether the instructor desires him to read or sound a note upon any particular line of the staff or a note in any space between the lines of the staff. lo indicate other forms of notes or chord formations, detachable tips in other forms, such as the triad in Fig. 5, are provided for use on the same baton.

My invention is hereinabove set forth as embodied in a particular form of construction, but I do not limit it thereto or to less than all the possible forms in which the said invention, as hereinafter claimed, may be embodied or distinguished from prior devices.

I claim 1. In a pointer-baton, in combination, a shaft and a note-formed tip having a stiff shank and a flexible blade apertured to show any underlying line of a staff-chart, substan- 1 tially as specified.

2. .In a pointer-baton, in combination, a shaft and a detachable note-formed tip having a stiff shank and a flexible blade apertured to show any underlying line of a staffchart, substantially as specified.

3. In a ointer-baton, in combination, a shaft and a note-formed tip of celluloid, having a stiff shank and a liexible blade and apertured to show any underlying line of a staff-chart, substantiaily as specified.

4. In a pointer-baton, in combination, a shaft and a detachable note-formed tip of celluloid, having a stiff shank and a flexible blade and a ertured to show any underlying line of a sta f-chart, substantially as specified.

5. In a pointer-baton, in combination, a

shalt and a note-formed tip ol slieet material, having a stilll shank and a flexible blade and apertured to sliow any underlying line ol' a stall-el1art, substantially as speeiiied.

ln a pointer-baton, in Combination, a sliai't and a note-'formed tip ol slieet Celluloid, having a still slianlr and a flexible blade and apertured to sliow any underlying line of stal'f-eliart, substantially as specified.

7. ln a pointer-baton, in combination, a shalt and a detachable note-formed tip of sheet material, having a still shank and a flexible blade and apertured to show any underlying line of a stall-Chart, substantially as speeiiied. l

8. ln a pointer-baton, in Combination, a slia'lt and a detachable note-formed tip ol' slieet Celluloid, having a still'l shank and a llexible blade and apertured to showl any underlying line olA a stall-eliart, substantially as specified.

9. ln a pointer-baton, in Combination, a shaft and a note-formed tip apertured to sl'iow any underlying line ol a statine-hart, said tip having a leXible blade and still hollow shank at a slight angle to its note-formed. .flexible blade, substantially as speei'lied.

10. ln a pointer-baton, in combination, a slialt and a detachable note-formed tip of slieet material and apertured to show any underlying line ol a stall-Chart, said tip having a flexible blade and still hollow shank at a sliglit angle to its note-'formed flexible blade, substantially as specified.

11. ln a pointer-baton, in Combination, a baton-shaft and detachable substitute tips representing various inusioal characters and having each note-forni apertured to show any underlying line of a stai'l-cliart, subtantially as specified.

12. In a pointer-baton, in combination, a baton-shalt and detachable substitute tips of lexible slieet material and representing va* rious musical characters, and liaving eaoli note-'forni apertured to show any underlying line of a statleliart, substantially as speeied.

13. ln a pointer-baton, in Combination., a note-fornied tip liaving a stift' shank and a Flexible blade, substantially as specified.

14. ln a pointer-baton, in combination, a detachable note-formed tip having a still slianlr and a flexible blade, substantially as specified. v

15. In a pointer-baton, in Combination, a baton-shaft and detachable substitute tips representing various niusioal lliaraeters, eaeli tip having a stift shank and a tlf -v`ible blad@ portion, substantially as specified.

1G. ln a poii'iter-baton, in Combination, a baton-shalt and detaelriabl-fu substitute tips 0l slieet material representing various musical characters, each tip having a still' shank and a flexible blade-portion', substantially as speei'lied.

17. ln a pointer-baton, in Combination, baton-shaft and detachable substi tute ti ps oll Celluloid and representing various musical characters, eaeli tip having a still` shank and a flexible blade-portion, substantially as specified.

18. ln a pointer-baton, in combination, a baton-shaft and detachable substitute tips ol sheet Celluloid and representing various musical Characters, eaeli tip having a stilll shank and a lexible blade portion, substantially as specified.

FLETCHER 'WHEELER Witnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY, PEARL ABRAMS. 

